Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Jimmy Carter? "He is a complex, contradictory personality," Mazlish and Diamond say. They continue in a flash of insight: "Most of us, of course, are complex and full of contradictions." Carter's brand of neo-populist rhetoric and waffling reflects those contradictions. Expediency exists as part of Carter's "realism." The president blurs the lines between liberalism and conservatism because he must be "true to his own character, with its basic need to embrace contradictions." Carter's remembrances of his downtrodden childhood, his career as a "nuclear engineer," his faith in Bert Lance--all explained...
...Phillips Brooks House, we strive to help people, particularly from low income groups, gain control of their lives. We believe that Harberger's brand of economics, and all that it stands for, contradicts all our beliefs and objectives. We join, then, with other campus groups to protest Harvard's decision and to clarify that we will continue to oppose it. Mirai Chatterjee for the Cabinet of PBHA
Other importers, like Sweden's Absolut and Poland's Wyborowa, were quick to seize the chance to increase their market share. But none was so aggressive as the Chinese brand Tsingtao, imported by Monarch Import Co. of New York from the Shandong province of northern China. Monarch took full-page ads in the New York Times offering Tsingtao as a punishing alternative to Stolichnaya and extolling the Chinese vodka's delicate taste, although some drinkers find it harsh. An 80-proof fifth sells for a few cents more than Stolichnaya. The copy of one scrappy ad last...
...China, and 3½ years ago, a brew called Great Wall made its appearance in the U.S. Tsingtao, from the same distillery, arrived last June. As to why ads are so pugnacious, Gad Romann, of Romann & Tannenholz, Tsingtao's agency, explained: "If you had an unheard-of brand, what would...
...there is not much evidence that sales are seriously falling. Some retailers claim that they are selling even more Stolichnaya by the case to hoarders who fear a permanent cutoff, or by the pint to those who dare not use it for entertaining. Ironically, one merchant noted that a brand left on the shelf in his store was Smirnoff, a domestic vodka distributed by Heublein. Says he: "People think it is Russian and they are refusing...